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omg I'm just salivating over all these new tattoo ideas:

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-"Tell them stories..." either backwards or upside down. It makes sense, cause I'm not telling anyone to tell stories, I'm being told, so it really only matters if I can read it or not.
-"Ghost" in runes- if I ever get Midnight Estates published, cause that's what Tristan gets tattooed in the right side of his abs, for an entirely different reason than what I have
-"There is a word for each leaf, and each wall, and there is a word for nothing." But I think I want to get this as hidden text inside of my dragon tree tattoo which will come up under my crows.

etc
-the rune "jera" which means harvest, among other things
-aforementioned dragon tree
-quill over my heart, mos' definitely
-snowflakes, to represent ;p
-a five-petal lotus tramp-stamp, when I start publishing my Lotus Children books (Renaissance)
-really vague, but something on my left thigh. I'm thinking peacock (sacred to Sarasvati), or maybe Sarasvati herself. Maybe something else- I dunno. I have a lifetime to figure it out.

Also, white-ink tattoos are so cool... I might get the quill in white, or I might get the snowflakes in white. I am seriously considering white "accents" around my body, too. So many decisions!

It's funny, cause I always loved tattoos, but I had some weird idea that I should care what people think about me if I have a tattoo, i.e. guys don't like girls with tattoos, or people will think you're immature or stupid, blah blah blah. I plan on having most of my tattoos easily hidden, not just for "professional" reasons but because I don't get tattoos to show them to people (though, admittedly, it's fun when you first get one to show it around). I get them for myself. I can't even fully explain the reasons behind my crows to most people because they just will not get it unless they really know me. ("you can't judge me, you don't know what I been thru")

For new year's day, i will probably stick with "Storyteller" in Sanskrit on my back, over my heart- my best friend is probably getting "storyteller" in another form that day- it will be such a squee-ishly bonding experience! If I decided to get "tell them stories" I have to get that while I'm in Oxford- most of HDM takes place there, and Philip Pullman lives there, so. Yeah.

Fun times!

Ok, so I'm very disoriented because I'm borrowing a laptop from my parents while the Apple store does a file transfer from my iBook G4 to my new MACBOOK PRO! HOLY SHIT! I'm still dumbfounded. I was supposed to get a macbook and then upgrade later, but my brother worked some weird logic magic on my mother while he was on the phone with her and she decided: "well, if you're going to get it anyway, I might as well spend the extra couple of hundred and get it for you now so that you can have the best resources for your media stuff."

:O

;-;

My mother is amazing. We've worked this out, btw- i'm not a complete J.A.P. (besides my Dad's the Jewish one). I've basically exchanged my next million birthdays and christmases, plus I've agreed to help my mom make a documentary (which is a subject for another exciting entry!).

But, what's really frustrating is I thought I had my query letter drafts for The Hierophant on my flash drive, and I don't, so I have to wait until I get my computer back tomorrow until I can look at them again, and it's driving me crazy. I so want to move forward on this, it's a visceral feeling in my blood.

I actually had a dream last night that I got a letter from an agent expressing interest in one of my novels. I've never had a dream that blatant about the publishing process! It also involved me, Sarah Diemer, and Jenn cleaning out the attic of an old house (houses in dreams represent your subconscious self, and attics represent your higher self, and we were all three cleaning together... and I've been learning about this "clearing" process to help rid your subconscious of limiting beliefs... it was so perfect!).

Ahhh.

Oh, and another thing, I finally just coughed up the dough to pay for a translation of "storyteller" into Sanskrit. I'm either going to get it along my wrist (not across) or on my back, over my heart to the left of my spine, or on my chest. I dunno.

I do know that I'm going to get a quill tattooed over my heart on my chest. Soon. It has a lot to do with me being a writer, obvs., but it also has to do with a myth my best friend made up for one of her books/series that I fell in love with the first time she told me about it. I don't want to say it here, but some day, when the books are published, you will get it.

:D

The left side of my body is a party, and the right side is all business ;p

Oh! And, last but not least, I got a new Tarot card deck last night because I lost my rider waite deck. I got the Art Nouveau deck, which I know doesn't look very "Maddie" but... it is strikingly appropriate for me lately, actually. Plus, its energy is just amazing. I'm very excited to get back into *trying* to learn how to read.

Ok! thankfully I do have drafts on my flash drive, so i'm going to work on that, and then make a list of agents to submit to (once the query is done).

"I feel heppy!"

Hmmm. Where to begin about how amazing this holiday weekend was...

( Halloween! )

( NaNoWriMo Day 1 / Samhain / All Saints Day :P )


( Dia de los Muertos / Writing! )

There's too much crap to do this week, and not enough time to just sit down and write. But I'll get it all done.

I'm so close to finishing another novel. Well, a draft, but still.

XD

So I've been thinking about getting another tattoo. I know for certain I will get a lotus tattoo (with five petals, or an abstract with five diamonds, like the "lotus mark" in my books), all that remains to be decided is the size and placement for that one. I will NOT get a tramp stamp, even though that does seem like the logical place for a tattoo of that shape. Besides, there's this other tattoo I want that might touch that area...

See, I imagine it like this: very delicate, thin, lines beginning at the small of my back, curving up to my right hip and sweeping up my ribs; it's a tree, maybe with blossoms, although cherry blossoms are so over-done (in my oppinion), so maybe with autumn leaves. But it's also a dragon at the S-curve, the snaky kind with no back legs. Maybe no wings. I can't seem to draw it correctly though, and it's hard to describe to an artist.

I also really like this dragon tattoo, but I would never get it because I already know someone else has it.

Hmm.